Think-Box Design

We offer 20 years worth of packaging design experience from the simplest standard box down to a bespoke fitting for your product.

We offer a multi tiered service to fit what you need. Our initial conversations, over phone, by email or face to face are always free so we can see what is required and how we can best help you to get the right design for a minimum cost.

This gives you much far greater flexibility to get prices from your packaging manufacturer if you already own the design.

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What do you love most about your job?

Every day is a new challenge at Think Box Design. Achieving a positive result for a client is all the reward we need to wake up the next day and do it all again.

What inspired you to start your own business?

After working for different companies in the past and being told what to do, and not getting the option to put your own opinion and working to your strengths across was a great motivator to me to leave that all behind me and work for myself.
I've created Think Box Design to offer a friendly, open service and experience that will work to produce the best possible product for the end user, in a cost effective environment.

Why should our clients choose you?

We're a hard working and honest company. We'll sit down with you and listen to your ideas', and how you see your vision, and offer our honest opinion on what will work for you and your product.
We're not about quick fixes. If your product needs something simple for the here and now, then we'll do that. If the nature of your business changes, then we will be here to help your packaging grow with it.

Think-Box Design Services

Basic Design Service

This service will give you a standard design, for a minimal cost.
The corrugated industry uses an internationally recognised set of standard designs, called FEFCO. All of these designs have a designated 4-digit number reference for easy identification.
​All we need to know is what you need the box for, and how you're going to use it.
We can work out the rest.
The package offers the following for a flat one off fee:
- A Standard FEFCO design drawing in 2D
- A plain bordered report drawing stating:
​- Your company name
- FEFCO Style reference number
- Material grade and flute type
- Internal dimensions in millimeters
- Approximate weight of the style in kilograms
- One free revision for internal size and material grade/flute type change
​- A *.cf2 file (common file format) which is compatible with all CAD software
We can also measure your existing boxes and draw them up for you, so you have records and drawings of all your corrugated products so you don't have to hunt around for a sample if you ever run out and need to get new quotes.

Bespoke Design Service

This service will give you a completely bespoke design, suited to your product and what you are trying to achieve with protection, marketing and presentation for your cardboard packaging.
This could involve the modification of a standard design, or creating a unique box or fitting suited for your product. We have the packaging design inspiration to develop a great packaging design.
Before any design work begins, a thorough design brief will be created, and an estimated time duration will be worked out and agreed with the client in a quotation.
The package includes the following:
- A bespoke drawing created specifically for your product or products in 2D
- A unique bordered report drawing stating:
​- Your company name and company logo (if supplied)
- Material grade and flute type
- Dimensions in millimeters
- Approximate weight of the style in kilograms
- Two free revisions for sizing and material grade/flute type change
​- A *.cf2 file (common file format) which is compatible with all CAD software​
- An interactive 3D generated PDF of the design assembled​
If you already have an existing physical product, we can even draw it up for you as a straight like for like copy, or make modifications to it for you, such as size amendments or changing tolerances for material grade changes. All you'd need to do is send us a physical sample or existing compatible drawing and we can reproduce it for you.

Free, no obligation Consultation

At Think Box Design, we strongly believe in creating a friendly open forum with our clients.
Your thoughts for how you want your packaging to interact with your product is paramount.
So for that reason, we're always available to discuss your initial ideas and thoughts about what you might need in regards to design. And best of all, we will never charge for this free exchange of advice and experience.
We hope that once you speak to us, whether it be by phone or email, or even face to face, you'll be happy with our ability to problem solve what you require and use one of our services to achieve the design your product deserves.

Estimating Manager

Managing the Estimating and Design Department. Overseeing enquiry workflow, designing of corrugated products and driving improvement of procedures and conversion rates of enquiries to orders.

Production Manager

Northdown Packaging

From March 2000 to November 2009.

Overseeing production management of a small corrugated sheet plant and introducing new management and control systems to drive sales turnover from £300K per annum to £3.5m per annum as part of a small, improvement and sales focused team.

Lab Technician

SCA Packaging Research

From March 1996 to January 2000.

Working in the Research test laboratory providing technical data and quality assurance to all UK plants and developing theoretical models within BS and UKAS Standards.

Projects

Jar Transit Protection

We recently completed a project where a business wanted to rationalise their current packaging solution down to a much more simpler product, which offered the same protection and was quicker to pack at the distributor.
Once packed, this boxed product would then be sent to a well known online marketplace to be sold to the end user. This marketplace has strict rules and tests to pass before accepting any packaging solution.
After numerous amendments and test, we finally managed to finalise a design which would completely protect glass jars going through the post and courier networks, without the need for bubblewrap and other plastic packaging. The pack is completely made from corrugated cardboard and fully recyclable.